Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-06-15
ADDITION AL NEWS.

MRS. ALBERT BROOKS, who went from
Juniata, Michigan, to Denver, several
months ago, to take possession Of an in
hertance Of $4,000, is believed to have
been kidnapped and carried off to Califor-
mia. A letter just received by her husband
says she is held captive by band Of men,
who have already secured $4,000 and are
determined to get it oil. The letter was
forwarded from Boston, but had been sent
to the postal authorities at that city from
California for mailing. Detectives are
working on the case.
The Kane county infrmary, ten miles
from Geneva, Illinois. was destroyed by
fire yesterday. All the inmates are sup
posed 10 have been saved.
The Secretary Of the Interior has dis
barred Jefferson J. Foxworthy, of Lincoln,
Neb., from practice before the Interior De-
partment.
The National Medical Association, late
ly in session at Chicago. thought that the
cause of the increase of insanity in this
country is due to the shipment thither of
feeble minded persons from other coun-
tries.
Payne, prominent citizen OF Hallett,
No., was found short distance from his
house with bullet hole through it. The
affair is shrouded in mystery.
A TUCsoN, Arizona, dispatch states that
GEN. Miles has arrived there to take per-
sonal charge OF the Indian campaign, as
tn, re is every appearance of a prolonged
war. Suspicion has long pointed 10 In-
dian settlers on the San Pedro reservation
as being the abettors of the San Carlos
renegades, and this fact seems now to be
established. The former have kept the
host les informed as 10 the movements of
the troops an have also furnished them
with horses to aid them in escaping pur-
suers.
A FIRE in the Mound City street car
barns in the outskirts of st. Louis, burned
3ls mules and did other damage aggregat-
ing $50,000 damages.
The Canadian Pacific Railways Tele-
graph company has collected crop reports
from nll points Of the Northwest and Man
iioba, and with hardly o single exception
the prospects are said to be very much
better than last year and plentiful har.
vest is exI ected.
The Russian government has prohibited
Chinese and Cor ans from settling in the
Russian territory contiguous TO their
countries.
TWELVE HUNDRED carpenters at Toron-
TO struck for higher wages. Both ''union"
and non- union men are among the strik-
ers.
BULGARIA is infested with bands of
real I've brigands.
JAMES +. BUFFUM, one of the last OF
the band of abolitionists led by Garriso n
and Phillips, died at his home in Lynn,
1nss., recently.
SENATOR MANDERsoN says TINT the
clerk of the committee on printing, to sue
ceed the late Ben: Perley Poore, is to be
Michael, of Nebraska. Sena or Mander-
son is chairman of the committee, and
says that he felt it to he his duty TO give
the clerkship TO a Nebraska man. He
speaks very highly Of Michael.
A PITTsBURG dispatch states that the
resumption of work at the Frick coke
ovens, now controlled by Carniege, Phipps
4 Co., gives employment TO about three
thousand mon, and will probably result in
the general resumption throughout the
Connellsville region in few days. The
output OF tho Frick ovens is about five
thousand tons Of coke per day, Of which
Carniege Il Co. will use 20 per cent. Of
this in their own mills.
THE knights Of Labor nt Emerson, Pa,
have all been ordered back 10 work at an
advance OF l23 per cent, and very shortly
$4,000 men will again be at work.